GTA V's bigfoot easter egg solved after months of work

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Last year, fans found a golden peyote plant in GTA V that could transform players into Sasquatch. This discovery was actually the tip of the iceberg of a much larger, way more ridiculous mystery. First, some recap, just to get you up to speed. The initial discovery of the golden peyote was made possible by perusing the code that makes up GTA V itself. By skimming through the game files, players were able to find the exact coordinates of every single peyote in the game. Thing is, some coordinates were completely unaccounted for; nobody could find the associated peyote plants that this code supposedly pointed to. And as if that wasn’t enough, Rockstar was outright winking at mystery hunters by leaving a small comment in the code of GTA V itself

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What does “he was wrong to start his hunt on Tuesday” even mean? Well, the only way to get that original golden peyote plant to spawn was by going to a specific area of the GTA map, while the weather was foggy or snowy, on a Tuesday. In context, Rockstar’s code comment appeared to be telling players that there was still more to be found, that the Tuesday peyote was only a part of the whole thing. And so players kept digging. “Each and every patch, a dedicated team of code readers called The Codewalkers constantly check if something new was added into the [GTA V] code,” Louis C Leblond, one of they key players involved in solving the latest GTA V mystery, told me in an interview. “They compare [databases] and [from there we got] clues about what was added or not. This is all very difficult because Rockstar are masters [at] hiding their code.”

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Starting with the Tuesday clue, players from the r/chiliadmystery subreddit recalled that the code referenced seven total peyote plants. The collective assumption then became, “oh, each peyote must align with a day of the week,” and the only way to get these other peyotes to spawn is to be at the special coordinates at the right time. After all, the only way they got the first peyote to spawn was by being in the right place at the right time. But this realization also meant that, thanks to the code coordinates, players knew the “where” but not the “when.” While messing around with the original golden peyote Bigfoot, fans noticed that pressing a button would activate a sonar that would point them toward the location of the next peyote plant. This was crucial in figuring out the order and days that needed to be assigned to each of the coordinates; Tuesday led to Wednesday, and so on.

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